Comments on: Requiescat in pacehttp://flipflopflyin.com/g/2007/07/requiescat-in-pace/
Fri, 09 Dec 2016 08:57:46 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1By: davehttp://flipflopflyin.com/g/2007/07/requiescat-in-pace/comment-page-1/#comment-2791
Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:42:04 +0000http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2007/07/requiescat-in-pace/#comment-2791Isn’t that just as bad if you’re not religious? Why should going with god be good for someone who doesn’t believe in god?
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Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:25:12 +0000http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2007/07/requiescat-in-pace/#comment-2792Isn’t that what Johnny Utah says to Bodhi at the end of “Point Break”?
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Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:59:41 +0000http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2007/07/requiescat-in-pace/#comment-2793Much prefer ‘via con dios’ myself.
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Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:41:50 +0000http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2007/07/requiescat-in-pace/#comment-2794I was thinking about that recently. I never liked that whole “RIP year-of-birth – year-of-death” concept, which seems so – I don’t know and maybe I’m wrong – anglo-american to me? I wonder how they handle this in Asia or South America (or elsewhere). In Germany you will find the words “Ruhe in Frieden” most likely on some tomb or monument, but not on the cover of a magazine or printed on a fan shirt.

Most of the time it seems so out of place to me. Like back then when they were selling those black & white posters with cobain on it with this sort of “epitaph” below, with cobain already making such a sad face, you keep thinking… no wonder this guy is dead.

But this is not some kid scraping cobain’s name to some wall (or drawing on some exercise book). They are making money out of it, so it’s fake, it’s an empty gesture, it doesn’t mean anything. It’s like a price tag, you know.

Same goes for those weblog comments. Obviously this is the easiest way of telling people, some person died AND you – somehow – feel sad about it (hard to imagine someone would come up with this for let’s say… hitler). But then, if this is all that comes to your mind, when some famous artist like bergman or antonioni dies, then it seems to me like this doesn’t mean that much to you, otherwise you would drop a few more lines. about a movie scene you remember well, or your favourite line from a script or whatever. or is this just some way of coming across as some culturally aware person, but never have the guts to sit through “Scenes from a Marriage”? Just an example…